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Spices & Seasons

Thursday, July 28, 2016

Secret Dream by Lindsay McKenna- Delos Series- Book Blast + Giveaway

Lia just wants him to meet her parents.

Why does this feel like the fight of his life?

SECRET DREAM

DELOS Series 1B

Lindsay McKenna

Releasing July 25th, 2016

Blue Turtle Publishing

Ex-Navy SEAL Cav Jordan faces danger daily in his job as a
security expert. He even faced down a gang of South American drug dealers to
protect his fiancée, Lia Cassidy. So why is he terrified of meeting her
parents? Having lived through his own horrible childhood Cav can’t understand
the situation is he is walking into. Lia just wants him to meet her parents.
Why does this feel like the fight of his life?

Novella: The continued story of Cav and Lia from Nowhere to
Hide, book 1 of the Delos Series.

For
a moment, Cav was stunned by the sudden kindness emanating from the
farmer’s expression who was thin, wiry, sunburned and physically
sinewy from the daily work he did. Gripping the farmer’s
calloused roughened hand, he said, “Nice to meet you, sir. And I
was just doing my job. Call me Cav?”

“Call
me Steve.” He clapped him heartily on the back, still clasping his
other hand. “And you’re a hero to us, son. Nothing less.”
Steve released him, keeping his hand on Cav’s broad shoulder,
watching Lia clinging to he mother, both of them in a tight, loving
embrace with one another.

Embarrassed
by such a show of emotions, Cav murmured, “Thank
you, sir.”

Steve
gave him an assessing look. “Just
Steve will do.”

“Yes,
sir….I mean, okay,” Cav stumbled. It was very different meeting
people who were strangers, but this was Lia’s parents and he didn’t
want to fuck this up for her. Awkwardly, he stood there, watching
tears roll down Susan’s face. He wasn’t sure that Lia wasn’t
crying too, such was the tight bond they shared. Obliquely, his mind
leaped backward. Cav remembered the times his mother had cried. But
they were tears of pain. Tears mingled with blood from her nose, a
split lip or both after his father got done beating her up. How many
times had Cav cried alone in his room wishing she would run away with
him from his monster father?

Steve
clapped him on the shoulder. “Let’s
us guys go find your luggage, huh?” and he smiled a little.

Good
idea! “Yes, sir—“

Steve
laughed and patted him warmly on the back. “You’re
staying a week with us, Cav. I’ll work that military side you out
of you by then. Come on, let’s hunt up that luggage for our you
and our Lia, eh?”

There
was a male gruffness mingled with warmth to Steve that made Cav want
to open up to the man. He had a deeply weathered face, his blue eyes
the same color as Lia’s.
The woman he loved had her mother’s same color of hair, her
father’s sparkling, mischievous looking eyes and her smile. There
was benevolence to Steve Cassidy and Cav automatically found himself
wanting to be close to this man who exuded a male gentleness he
rarely found in any man. “Thanks for coming to pick us up,” Cav
said, noting that the baggage from their flight would be spit out by
Carousel Two.

“We’ve
been looking forward to seeing you two,” Steve said, standing with
his hands on his hips, watching the luggage starting to be dropped
off the conveyor belt. “Did you have a good flight?”

“Yes.
It was quiet. That’s all I ask.”

“We
don’t travel much,” he said. “With a farm, you can’t walk
away from it, so I’m glad you came for a visit.”

Cav
felt Steve’s genuine
sincerity. He hooked a look over his shoulder, seeing Lia and her
mother talking animatedly with one another as they walked toward
them. Susan had given Lia her smile and her beauty, no question. He
liked that the mother had hooked her arm around Lia’s waist and
they walked closely, their affection for everyone to see. He knew
Lia’s affection himself and already, he could see how happy she was
at being home with her parents once more. They breathed even more
life into her, if that was possible. Compared to the ghost of a
person she was in Costa Rica months earlier, Cav was stunned at Lia’s
natural radiance. She was sunshine to his darkened soul who craved
her.

“Uh
oh,” Steve murmured, grinning as he turned. “I’m about to get
attacked.”

For
a moment, the word put Cav on instant guard. But as he turned, he saw
Steve opening his arms as Lia flew into them, her arms wide open, joy
radiant on her face as she clung to her father. A lump formed in his
throat as he watched Lia being swallowed up by the big man who kissed
her hair, kissed that cheek that had that deep scar on it, his eyes
only for his beaming daughter in his arms. His gaze flicked to
Susan, who stood a few feet away, teary eyed, smiling, her lower lip
trembling as she watched Lia with her doting father. It hurt to
swallow and Cav turned away, remembering too much of the twisted and
distorted family he’d
somehow managed to survive. He’d never known a moment of affection
from his father. Only his fist. His hatred. His anger always aimed
at him.

Lindsay McKenna lives her life as a risk taker, and it shines through the
books she loves to write: romance, adventure and suspense. She started writing
at age thirteen and continues to hone her writing skills to this day. She sold
her first romance novel in 1981. The rest is history.

Because she went into the military, this experience became the
backbone of her writing—she is credited with writing the first military romance
novel (Captive of Fate, 1983, Silhouette Special Edition) and has created a
thriving sub-genre within the romance field! As a New York Times Best Selling
author, she has sold 23 million books and in 32 foreign languages in her career
thus far. Her many experiences in the U.S. Navy are backdrop for her
understanding of the military in general, and also her very successful Morgan’s
Mercenaries, which is an ongoing series in Silhouette to this day! Forty-five
books strong!

Lindsay has gone Indie in 2015 and has created a new family saga
on par with Morgan’s Mercenaries It is known as the DELOS SERIES. There will be
paperback and eBooks created under Blue Turtle Publishing, her company for her
fans. Readers who love Morgan and his family are bound to fall in love with the
Culver family. Delos is romantic suspense, which Lindsay is well known for. It
took her five years to create and bring DELOS to her readers. It was worth the
wait, but we’ll let you decide that.

Lindsay loves to hear from her readers and loves to know what
they’d like to see her write next. Stay up with the latest on the Delos Series
here. Please visit her Web site at www.lindsaymckenna.com. And be sure to sign up for her free
quarterly newsletter. It contains exclusive content found nowhere else on the
Net. Plus, giveaways and other surprises, to her loyal and faithful
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